Mark 3:7-12

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

7 1Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and 2a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea
8 and Jerusalem and 3Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around 4Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.
9 And he told his disciples to 5have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they 6crush him,
10 for 7he had healed many, so that all who had 8diseases pressed around him 9to touch him.
11 10And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they 11fell down before him and cried out, "You are 12the Son of God."
12 And 13he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

Cross References 13

  • 1. Matthew 12:15
  • 2. Matthew 4:25; Luke 6:17
  • 3. Isaiah 34:5; Ezekiel 35:15
  • 4. See Matthew 11:21
  • 5. Mark 6:32, 45(Gk.); Mark 8:10(Gk.)
  • 6. Mark 5:24, 31
  • 7. See Matthew 4:23
  • 8. Mark 5:29, 34
  • 9. Mark 6:56; Matthew 9:20, 21; Matthew 14:36; Luke 6:19
  • 10. Mark 1:26, 34; Luke 4:41
  • 11. Luke 8:28
  • 12. See Matthew 14:33
  • 13. See Matthew 12:16
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